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...Similarly, most of the 75, students gathered at the introductory lecture in History 155a seemed amenable to Kennan's suggestion of a reading period in the beginning. Students will have until Feb. 9 to do the reading for the course; then, each will draw up possible examination questions to prove he has done the reading...
...known, this is the first ?? a Harvard lecture course with a lar?? rollment has begun with a reading p?? The change does not appear to re?? any special University approval. Th? Faculty members involved-Edward ?? Banfield; Henry Lee Shattuck. Pro?? of Urban Government, and Edward Kennan Jr '57. Lecturer on History ??rived at their decisions separately...
They will not, however, actually have to take an hour exam until late March or April, after another reading period of a week or more. Kennan, who has given the course several times previously under the normal structure, said he decide upon the experiment after finding a notebook of one of last year's students which indicated that the student had gone through the entire course without doing any of the reading...
...revisionists have a particular quarrel with the dominant scholarly voice of the recent past: what they call "consensus history," as exemplified by such diverse writers as Richard Hofstadter of Columbia, Daniel Boorstin of the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, and George Kennan of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The consensus historians, who came to maturity during World War II and the early years of the cold war, exhibit an understandable hostility to totalitarianism in their writings. By contrast, they emphasize the spirit of compromise and accommodation in American history. Compared with...
...week's attack on television news presentations to include print journalism (see THE PRESS). Agnew did not ignore his more familiar adversary, radical youth. In other statements, Agnew has blamed journalism for ballooning the militants' dimensions. In Montgomery, the Vice President even invoked the names of George Kennan, Irving Kristol and others of the Eastern intellectual fraternity-more usually targets of his contempt-because they had spoken out cogently against unreasoned campus rebellion. No effete snobs, they...